SEE THE UPDATE AT THE END OF THE POST
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Joe Romm of ThinkProgess/Climate presented a graph yesterday that showed the dwindling newspaper coverage of global warming and climate change. See his post Silence of the Lambs: Climate Coverage Drops At Major U.S. Newspapers, Flatlines on TV. The graph was produced by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado. See their webpage here. U.S. Newspaper coverage of global warming and climate change peaked in 2006 and 2007 with the release of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and the IPCC/Gore nomination and award of the Nobel Peace Prize. Coverage has been declining ever since.
Worldwide newspaper coverage of global warming and climate change shows a curiously different curve.
Worldwide, newspaper coverage peaked in December 2009. And what does that coincide with? CLIMATEGATE!
It should go without saying, if global warming enthusiasts would like additional newspaper coverage, someone at one of the research facilities, or a hacker, will have to release another round of emails that show climate scientists behaving badly.
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UPDATE: A couple of bloggers suggested that the 2009 COP climate conference in Copenhagen may have been the cause of spike in 2009. The following gif animation compares screencaps of Google Trends for “Climate Conference”, “COP conference” and “Climategate”. The conferences occur annually but there was unusually high interest in the one in 2009 (that trailed Climategate by a few weeks).
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It is interesting that AR5 got so little coverage.
Was it not newsworthy because it recorded no new discoveries, nothing new to say?
Surely that would be newsworthy in itself.
It’s not just how much is being written but what. See Alex in today’s Telegraph.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02791/Alex15_01_13_2791104a.gif
Bob, the really interesting question is what will they do next? Ocean acidification has fallen flat, and the Biotech and Nanotech revolutions are still too distant to command enough attention. Marc Morano had a go at guessing the next scare story a few years ago – love to hear your thoughts.
http://www.climatedepot.com/2010/01/19/time-for-next-ecoscare-already-as-global-warming-movement-collapses-activists-already-testmarketing-the-next-ecofear-laughing-gas-crisis-oxygen-crisis-plastics/
The peak – Is it Climategate… or Copenhagen?
I suspect a large proportion is the later (that it failed utterly, for the reasons that the non-kyoto countries were never going to reduce emissions growth, is the wider picture)
Barry Woods:
re your post at January 15, 2014 at 4:11 am.
I agree the peak was because of the failed Copenhagen CoP.
And that failure is why the issue is fading away as is shown e.g. by the lack of reporting of the AR5 release.
Richard
Owing to the US Energy Acts of 2005 and 2007 the US is currently leading the world in CO2 emissions reductions and well on it’s way to ‘energy independence’. (There was a small exemption to the Clean Water Act granted for experimentation with fracking fluids).
As gas in much of the US is cheaper then coal and the VC Summer nuclear demonstration plants have yet to be completed their isn’t a lot to discuss.
It seems that the lack of coverage by the media is not going without notice … it appears that some politicians are planning on pushing for more coverage on the subject at the networks.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/democrats-plan-to-pressure-tv-networks-into-covering-climate-change-20140114
The boy who cried wolf. I think the public expect the alarmists to be hysterical so them being hysterical and underhanded no longer merits attention. CGII and 3 garnered minimal coverage in the MSM.
Frequency of coverage doesn’t meant much. See, for example, this blog. How many posts did WUWT do on record cold temperatures in the U.S. over the past little while? And how many will be done on the record warm temperatures in Australia?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25723867
A lot of posts on one and largely ignoring the other tells you something about the blog and little about the real world.
Well, maybe “news” articles have dropped off, but things like The Weather Channel keep plugging along. I pop it on in the morning as I prepare to leave for work to catch local radar and forecast. This morning they follow up with a report from Breckenridge CO about how in the coming decades skiing could become a thing of the past because of climate change….. Well, in the coming decades meteors could strike the earth…. curtailing the ski industry. there could be nuclear war…… curtailing the ski industry….. there could be an ice age that covers half of the Northern hemisphere…. curtailing the ski industry (except in Mexico maybe)…. so we had better put in place remediation procedures to make sure none of the scenarios really happen. We MUST save the Skiing industry or all is lost!!!
PUHHHHHLEASE!
Leon, looks like it’s time to vote more Democrats out of office!
whatever happened to the full dump released in 2012? did anyone actually look at the files or did they wash their hands of it?
Just had a look at the article on the Joe Romm site, hardly any comments there and one of them was for making money on the computer.
To my eyes we are almost at the levels of 2004 for all regions. No wonder they are screaming ever louder for action now before it’s too late. Now I know what the ‘too late’ represents. 😉
You have been averting your eyes from what Warmist blogs report also. Think about it, you are really funny, calling the kettle black. Puleeeeeeeeeeeese.
oh the aus medias all over the heatwave,,and ALL ignore the fact its come over n down after the recent cyclone up the top west corner seems to have upset the normal pattern. (my theory)
regardless its neither new novel or unexpected or unprecedented as a couple of Trove reports on realscience today listed.
Guardian au is full of panicking warmist crud as always.
mods are in full ban any sceptical mode.
Romm complains that in 2012 and 2013 they “only” averaged 29-30 stories a year on the “story of the century”. That is still more than 2X per month. It used to be almost 2X per week so this is a big drop. Actually there could be just as many stories about how the had exaggerated but that is not exciting enough.
whatever happened to the full dump released in 2012? did anyone actually look at the files or did they wash their hands of it?
Yeah, they looked at ’em. But nearly all the red meat was in the first two dumps (mostly the first). But that was enough. It cost the CAGW advocates much of the trust they had garnered, and, considering their unscientific behavior, blunted their accusations of “anti-science”.
The public will accept error. (Often.) But fast-footing or even outright deception is another kettle of fish.
I rather suspect that the call for more stories on ‘global warming’ will rapidly dissipate (and possibly even reverse) if UAH/RSS/GISS/HadCriut4 does not resume the rise back to the ‘linear trend’ in the very near future.
As an aside, it could be pointed out the ‘flat earthers’ are just another example of ‘tangent to the curve’/ ‘linear trend’ thinking.
@Peter in MD
“This morning they follow up with a report from Breckenridge CO about how in the coming decades skiing could become a thing of the past because of climate change…..”
Peter – First, turn off The Weather Channel, and don’t look back. They are worthless…
Second, if you have home WIFI, get an iPad (or other similar, portable device), create a bookmark for you favorite weather site, and turn that on in the morning when you need weather info (I use Intellicast, but there are many out there to choose from). It’s a much faster and convenient way to get local weather stats, warnings, and forecasts. If you have a smart phone, you can use a similar setup on that device.
Some lefty extremist US Senators are leading a move to pressure TV into covering (as they define “covering”) more AGW related issues in coming times. The climate obsessed do not see media as place to discuss issues. They see media as a venue for indoctrination.
@Peter in MD
“This morning they follow up with a report from Breckenridge CO about how in the coming decades skiing could become a thing of the past because of climate change…..”
The ski industry argument has always struck me as the most stupid and hypocritical. Assuming CAGW is an actual THREAT, the FIRST thing we should eliminated is frivolous spending of CO2- like ski trips. If their argument was correct, skiing should NOW be a thing of the past!!
As JoNova points out our MSM is still alive and kicking with global warming but the climate has changed rather dramatically-
http://joannenova.com.au/
Were radical environmentalist dropped on their heads at birth? I wonder how it must feel to live your whole life feeling anxious and afraid and seeing threats (usually all imagined) around every corner. When they’re on their deathbeds I wonder if they’ll ever think to themselves ‘man, I wasted my life’?
And by the way did the UN do a forecast report on which US city would be the coldest on earth during your recent cold spell like we’ve just got with some hot weather?
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/un-report-says-temperatures-in-adelaide-will-make-it-worlds-hottest-city-on-thursday/story-fnl1ee8j-1226802735418
Or were they a bit too busy at the time with their computer models?
No, the denier/ sceptics are all wrong.
1. Ten years is way too short for a realistic trend to be measured! How dare you cherry-pick that start point?
2. 2009 was just an outlier. The trend is still positive.
3. Reporting is not actually falling, it’s just a pause… or a hiatus! According to our models, the amount of reporting is very likely to continue to increase at an alarming rate.
4. Yes but this decade has still seen much more reporting than previous decades. In fact, it’s probably the highest ever level since records began!
5. What do you know? You’re not a real journalist!
6. The missing reporting is hiding in the deep ocean!
7. Stop denying what the experts’ models have been projecting.
Regards,
The Team x